US Patent Issued to Foursquare Labs on Nov. 25 for "Creating segments for directed information using location information" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,633, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Foursquare Labs Inc. (New York).

"Creating segments for directed information using location information" was invented by Simon Favreau-Lessard (San Francisco), Daniel Harrison (New York), Adam Poswolsky (New York), Jason Liszka (New York) and Robert Stewart (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In non-limiting examples, passive information is used to verify the location of a client computing device and to create segment categories for directed information using location-based services and/or applications. In aspects, passive information is received from a client computing device. The c...